BH-1 ( of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 56.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 49.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Ibexian (487.5 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, dolomitic lime mudstone and wackestone

• "Light blue-grey weathering, planar bedded, sparsely bioturbated. Fossil trails buff, dolomitized. Erosive bed cuts down as much as 10 cm into underlying bed."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. D. Boyce in 1976-87

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce. 1989. Early Ordovician trilobite faunas of the Boat Harbour and Catoche Formations (St. George Group) in the Boat-Harbour-Cape Norman area, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, Newfoundland and Labrador, Report 89-2 1-168 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106193: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
planispiral
Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hystricurus oculilunatus
Hystricurus oculilunatus Ross 1951 trilobite